Ten Often Purchased Foods Items to Make From Scratch in the Slow Cooker (and Celebrating One Year of Slow Cooker from Scratch!)

One year ago today was the official launch date forSlow Cooker from Scratch! For me, it's been a fun year of discovering how diverse slow cooker recipes can be while also figuring out how to best manage a curated site. When I first launched the site, I asked bloggers to submit individual recipes, which led to a lot of duplicate submissions, and was hard to keep up with. Now if you're a food blogger with from-scratch slow cooker recipes, you can Submit Your Site and I will follow your blog by RSS reader and watch for recipes I'd like to feature.

There have been 252 featured recipes this year! I apologize to anyone who submitted a recipe during the year and it never was featured here. I was surprised that I had more submissions than I could spotlight in a timely manner, and I also quickly learned that recipes had to have a really spectacular photo to get noticed on a site like this.

Despite the title of the blog, I'm not a fanatic about using everything from scratch. (I especially love my canned beans!) But I really like the idea that when you make something from scratch, you know just what goes into it, so for the birthday celebration I thought it would be fun to spotlight Ten Often Purchased Foods Items to Make from Scratch in the Slow Cooker. Most of these will probably be better when you make them from scratch, and they'll save you some money too!

If you've made it this far, thanks for reading! I hope I've given you at least one idea for something new to make in the slow cooker. And if you'd like to send birthday wishes to Slow Cooker from Scratch, I'd love to hear in the comments about your favorite things to make in the slow cooker. (Links are welcome if there's a good recipe idea you'd like to share!)

Wow, the year has flown by! Thank you for all the new recipes I've discovered here, and for the confidence I've gained by cooking from scratch in my (relatively new to me) slow cookers. As I write this, a batch of chicken stock is burbling away in the first slow cooker I ever bought. Happy Birthday, SCfS!

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